My research interests include documentary activism, digital humanities pedagogy, and best practices in experiential and service learning.
For a complete listing of my publications and scholarly work, please view my ORCID profile.
PUBLICATIONS
Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration, as editor-in-chief (Public Knowledge Project: Issues 1.1-4.1, ISSN 2369-5056)
Film Matters special issue on the filmic adaptation, as guest editor (Intellect Publishers: 7.2, Fall 2016 ISSN 2042-1869)
Book review of Steven Jacobs’ The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock in the journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities, guest-edited by Dr. Michael Howarth (HERA: 32.1, Spring 2015)
“Beasts of the Devil, Perishables, and the Natura Morta” in the Journal of Literature and Art Studies (David Publishing: 3:6, June 2013)
Instructor’s Manual to accompany Eric Henderson's Writing by Choice (Oxford University Press: Second Canadian edition, 2011)
Biographical entries on sixteen Canadian writers for William H. New's Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2002)
“Equity in the Classroom,” published in Great Expectations: Equity in the Classroom (New Faculty Workbook, Kapi’olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii: 1999)
Supervision Scenes: Video Guidebook for Facilitators (Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC: 1999)
Quarterly newsletter for the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (formerly the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth), as its editor (UBC: 1995-2000)
SCHOLARLY WORK
Presenter of “Documentary Activism: How to Launch a Social Justice Film Festival and Outreach Program” (IAFOR Conference, Honolulu: 2019).
Presenter of "Web Visibility Matters: A Social Media Primer for Academics" (Teaching Professor Conference, St Louis: 2017)
Presenter/Faculty Coordinator of a poster presentation on digital humanities practicums with three ENGL 4300 students (Digital Humanities Summer Institute colloquium, University of Victoria: 2016)
Executive Producer of the KDocs promotional video (ENGL 4300 practicum project: 2016)
Executive Producer of an experiential learning/community-building music video, "Hello Farewell" by rapping English majors Big Love and Kalvonix (Tetrafilms: 2015)
Moderator of a film studies panel at the 4th Annual Sociology Undergraduate Student Conference (KPU: 2014)
Alfred Hitchcock Panelist presenting “What’s on Your iPod, Norman Bates?: A&E’s Bates Motel and the Retconning of a Psycho” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference (Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM: 2014)
Alfred Hitchcock & Film Theory Panelist presenting “Vertigo Under Surveillance: Deconstructing the ‘Apt Pupil’ of Hitchcockian Voyeurism”at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference (Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM: 2013)
Moderator of Canadian literature panel on “Postmodernist Readings of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables” at the 2nd Annual Sociology Undergraduate Student Conference (Kwantlen Polytechnic University: 2012)
Executive Producer of the English Department's promotional video (Kwantlen Polytechnic University: 2011)
Co-facilitator of the three-day New Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop (Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, UBC: 2003)
Facilitator of "Using Creativity to Light the ‘Fire’ of Learning" PD workshop (Professional Development Support Services, Kwantlen Polytechnic University: 2003)
Co-producer and Post-production Manager of Supervision Scenes: Identifying Keys to Success video for graduate supervisors and students (Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, UBC: 1998)
Webmaster for the English Department site (2002-2014); the KDocs site (2015-present); and UBC's Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology's (formerly the Centre for Teaching & Academic Growth) website (1997-2000)
Special events
Presenter, "From Classroom to Community: Rediscovering the Humanities in the Digital Experience" for the Arts Speaker Series (KPU Surrey, April 5, 2018)
Presenter, "Film Study -- Black Comedy" for TALK (KPU Surrey, March 6 & 13, 2017)
Presenter at the Faculty of Arts AGM on "ENGL 4300: An Experimental Blend of Digital Humanities and Service Learning" (Melville Centre for Dialogue, KPU, September 1, 2016)
Speaker at the BCTLC's Festival of Learning on "Social Media Profiles: Best Practices for Mastering your Digital Footprint" (Delta Burnaby Hotel and Conference Centre, June 8, 2016)
Presenter, "Assembling Narrative Continuity: Editing Techniques in Alfred Hitchcock’s Experimental Films" for TALK (Richmond campus, April 6, 8 & 13, 2016)
Interviewee, ACA Media podcast, Episode 28 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies, February 2016)
Presenter, “Social Media Profiles: Strategies for Controlling Your Digital Footprint” (KPU Surrey campus, February 22, 23 & 24, 2016)
KDocs Community Outreach Coordinator & Facilitator, "A Screening of Andrew Rossi's Ivory Tower and Discussion Forum" (Langley Secondary School, November 27 and December 1, 2015)
Presenter, "Escape Route: North by Northwest and Auteurist Filmmaking" for TALK (Richmond campus, October 26 & November 2, 2015)
Presenter, “Cinéma Vérité: Disaster Filmmaking and the 9/11 Narrative” for TALK (Surrey campus, February 25 and March 4, 2015)
Coordinator, Frontier Poetics Rap Outreach Program (at various high schools in the KPU catchments, November 2014 – February 2015)
Presenter, “The Post-romantic films of Richard Linklater” for TALK (Surrey campus, March 17, 19, 31, and April 1, 2014)
Presenter, “A Critical Study of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo” for TALK (Surrey campus, February 20 and 27, 2013)
coursework
Certification in online journal systems (Simon Fraser University's Public Knowledge Project School: 2016)
"Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir" certificate course with Dr. Richard L. Edwards (Ball State University/TCM: June-August 2015)
"Professionalizing the Early Career Digital Humanist: Strategies and Skills" led by Daniel Powell and Melissa Dalgleish at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria, June 15-19, 2015)